Care needs of people with dementia and challenging behaviour living in residential facilities : a review of available literature on residential care for people with dementia and challenging behaviour
Published
[Canberra] : Commonwealth Dept. of Health and Family Services, [1996]
1. Introduction -- Definitions of dementia -- Causes of dementia -- Definitions of challenging behaviour -- How behaviour changes over the course of dementia -- Assessment of dementia and challenging behaviour -- Perceptions of challenging behaviour -- Tertiary prevention of dementia -- 2. Residential care structures used to support people with dementia and challenging behaviour -- Europe -- North America -- Australia -- CADE [confused and disturbed elderly] units -- Characteristics of people with challenging behaviour in residential care -- Typologies of residential care structures -- 3. Best practice approaches -- Defining best practice -- Synthesis -- Normalisation of social role valorisation -- Communication-based approaches: validation, reality orientation -- Psychotropic medication -- A primary care nursing model -- 'Therapeutic' environmental design -- Milieu therapeutic approach -- Lawton-Nahemov ecological model -- Progressively lowered stress threshold and ELTOS -- The TECH approach -- Garden Suburb Nursing Home approach -- Jessie Gillett Court approach -- Hammondville approach: case management -- Mayflower Retirement Village model -- Resthaven approach -- Special care units.figures -- Need mo
